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Originally Posted by droopy
I'd like downloaded author metadata to remove the spaces and dots in the initials of author names.
For example, "C. S. Lewis" should automagically appear as "CS Lewis".
"John Q. Smith" should autoconvert to "John Q Smith"
I select a row, press Control-D, choose "Configure Download", click "Create Rules to transform author names", click "Add rule". But now I'm stuck. I'm guessing I should choose "matches regex pattern". But I don't know what to put in the next two blanks.
Can someone please tell me what I should have in these blanks?
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You could use the Quality Check plugin to reformat author initials. Customize the plugin to say author initials should be AB which will remove spaces and periods.
BTW, C. S. Lewis used both spaces and periods in his signature as in the one from a scan of one of his letters.